SEPT. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2285

interest of the prices of goods and the rates of services; or for any other
purpose relative to the industries of Samoa.

(2.) For the purpose of any such investigation the Board may by
order require any person, firm, or body corporate engaged or concerned
or supposed to be engaged or concerned in any industry to answer in
writing, within such time and in such form as the Board thinks fit, any
questions which relate to that industry or to the connection of that
person, firm, or body corporate therewith, or to any other matter within
the purpose of this Order.

(3.) For the purpose of such investigation the Board may by order
require any person, firm, or body corporate engaged or concerned or
supposed to be engaged or concerned in any industry to produce for the
inspection of any member of the Board, or of any officer or other person
nominated in that behalf by the Board, any books or documents in the
possession or control of the person, firm, or body corporate relative to
any matter affecting that industry, and to allow copies of or extracts
from such books or documents to be made by the person so inspecting
them.

(4.) If default is made by any person, firm, or body corporate in
obedience to any order of the Board under this clause, such person,
firm, or body corporate, and each member of such firm and every person
who counsels, procures, or is otherwise knowingly concerned in such
default, shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred
pounds.

(5.) Every person who deceives, obstructs, or attempts to deceive
or obstruct the Board or any member or officer thereof, or any person
nominated by the Board as aforesaid, in the conduct of any such inves-
tigation shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred
pounds, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.

(6.) All information obtained by the Board or by any member,
officer, or agent thereof by means of any such investigation shall be
treated as confidential, subject only to the right of publication expressly
conferred on the Board by this Order.

9. So far as such publication is deemed by the Board to be
   expedient in the public interest, it shall be lawful for the Board from
   time to time to publish in such manner as it thinks fit any information
   obtained by the Board in the course of any investigation under this
   Order, and any report, findings, recommendations, or comments made
   with respect thereto by the Board or by its members.

10. The publication of any such matter by the Board, and the
    republication by any other person of any matter published by the
    Board, or of any part of such matter, shall be absolutely privileged,
    and the matter so published or republished shall be a lawful subject
    of comment within the meaning of the law of defamation, and no action
    shall be brought by any person for the publication or republication of
    such matter whether on the ground of defamation or otherwise.

11. (1.) Every person commits an offence who, either as principal
    or agent, sells or supplies or offers for sale or supply any goods at a
    price which is unreasonably high.

(2.) For the purposes of this clause the price of any goods shall
be deemed to be unreasonably high if it produces or is calculated to
produce more than a fair and reasonable rate of profit to the person
selling or supplying or offering to sell or supply those goods or to his
principal.

(3.) Every person commits an offence who being in possession of
goods for mercantile purposes destroys or hoards and refuses to sell
such goods or to make them available for sale, if such destruction or
hoarding and refusal raises or tends to raise the cost of other similar
goods to the public.